Armando Nolasco Pinto is a Full Professor in the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics of the University of Aveiro and the leader of the Quantum Communications research group at the Instituto de Telecomunicações.
He is an author and has presented his work in more than 200 international scientific journals and conferences. The work carried out by Armando and the team he coordinates has been awarded more than 23 scientific awards. He holds four international patents and has participated in 57 research projects, having been a global coordinator of 24. Armando is currently the coordinator of a European Union project and a NATO project in quantum communication technologies.
Moreover, Mr. Pinto is a member of the Editorial Board of the “Scientific Reports”, published by Nature, and the “Optical and Quantum Electronics” and “Quantum Communication” journals, published by Springer and the Institute of Engineering and Technology, respectively. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Senior Member of the Optica Society.